Chapter 239 – Letting the villagers of Stone Village contract for sand land

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Wei Ruo came out of the brewery and passed through Stone Village, and the villagers passing by warmly greeted Wei Ruo.

“Mr. Xu!”

“Benefactor Xu!”

“Benefactor, come to my house for a drink!”

“……”

Wei Ruo smiled and responded to the crowd’s enthusiasm, but politely declined their invitation.

Shi Dayou came out of his house with a hoe on his back, and when he saw Wei Ruo, he was all smiles: ”Mr. Xu! You’ve come! Do you need any help over at the brewery?”

Every time he saw Wei Ruo, Shi Dayou had to ask this.

Wei Ruo said, “Thanks to the village chief’s kindness, there’s nothing going on at the moment.”

“Mr. Xu you don’t always call me village chief, calling me is weirdly embarrassing, just call me Dayou.” Shi Dayou said.

“Good, Brother Dayou.” Wei Ruo then asked Shi Dayou, “Brother Dayou, how are the bamboo fungus on the mountain selling these days?”

Shi Dayou replied with a smile, “Thanks to Mr. Xu’s blessing, this bamboo fungus was transported to the city’s bazaar and sold very well. The silver exchanged for rice, noodles and meat, I gave it to the villagers to share, and everyone was very happy and grateful to you for telling them about this lucrative camp.”

“Divided? Didn’t everyone pick it themselves and then take it to the market to sell?” Wei Ruo asked.

Shi Dayou explained: “No, the mountain is not much bamboo fungus, if everyone swarmed to pick surely all at once picked up, and this thing put not long, soon not fresh, but this thing to buy people are not much, everyone sells the price is not sold high, and you fight me to pick is not conducive to our planting.”

Shi Dayou then said, “So we discussed and decided to send a few village women specifically to pick this, picking counts everyone collectively shared, sell the silver to pay the picking women a certain amount of wages outside the count everyone, the rest of the people continue to busy field things.”

Listening to Shi Dayou’s reply, Wei Ruo couldn’t help but show an appreciative look, this Shi Dayou was indeed a good village chief with a long term vision.

Looking at the enthusiastic Shi Dayou in front of him, an idea suddenly arose in Wei Ruo’s heart.

“Brother Dayou, have you considered leading the villagers to do some other kind of camping?” Wei Ruo asked.

Wei Ruo these two days has seen out, stone village villagers per capita arable land area is not much, the village’s labor force used to planting is surplus, and Wei Ruo just have need to use laborers.

“Other camps?” Shi Dayou looked at Wei Ruo in surprise.

“It’s still the matter of planting crops, I’ve seen that there’s quite a bit of wasteland in the unwilling distance from my brewery, it belongs to the village next to yours, I just bought it a few days ago, I intend to use it to plant some crops, and it needs manpower, so I’m going to look for someone to contract it.” Wei Ruo said.

Wei Ruo, the sandy land near the capital city, has long been on the lookout for, just because of the many things last winter has been postponed until now to put on the agenda.

And the silver used for this land purchase was exactly the medical fee that Zhu Zongyu paid her last time.

Wei Ruo now has a lot of people in the manor, for now she does not want to continue to hire long laborers, choosing to contract to others can save a lot of things.

Shi Dayou was astonished, “But Mr. Xu those wastelands can’t be planted, not only is the terrain bad, but there’s also a lot of gravel, so you can’t grow crops at all.”

But where a crop can grow, the people who store next door won’t let it sit empty or sell it easily to outsiders. ….

Who doesn’t want to have more land and grow more? They croppers are not afraid of suffering, they are afraid of not having any land to plant.

Wei Ruo said, “Sandy land is also capable of growing crops.”

“Really?” Shi Dayou looked at Wei Ruo with a look of disbelief.

“Well, it can be. I think you should have heard of this crop, sweet potato, recently.” Wei Ruo said.

“I’ve heard of it and tasted it, and it’s said to be hardy and still have a high yield. There are already several people within the Taizhou Prefecture who have begun to grow this crop.”

“In fact, mountain planting is not the best place to plant sweet potatoes, instead, it is more suitable to plant on sandy land, which is breathable and more suitable for tuber growth, and the mature tubers will be sweeter.” Wei Ruo explained.

“Are sweet potatoes really that good?” Shi Dayou couldn’t help but be shocked.

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“Yes, I didn’t have to lie to you.”

“There is also some sandy land in my village, can it be used to grow sweet potatoes as well?” Shi Dayou asked.

The sandy wasteland of Stone Village is not much, but who would mind having more food when you can grow a little!

“It can be.” Wei Ruo’s answer was naturally affirmative.

“Then what kind of seeds are used to grow sweet potatoes?” Shi Dayou asked again.

“You don’t need seeds, you can take cuttings with vines, when I ship the vines over at that time, I’ll even out some of you together.” Wei Ruo said.

“How can this be a good thing? You’ve already helped us so much, Mr. Xu!” Shi Dayou was embarrassed.

“There’s nothing to be embarrassed about, if you want to count the money, just deduct it from the wages at that time, it won’t cost a few dollars anyway.” Wei Ruo said.

Listening to Wei Ruo’s words, Shi Dayou rose in his heart, hating that he could not immediately follow Wei Ruo to open up the wasteland right now.

“Then what does Mr. Xu need from us?”

The good thing is that Shi Dayou still have sense in the, know that things can not be rushed, have to step by step slowly, the first thing or first have to Xu Gongzi want them to do things asked clearly, lest make mistakes.

“I’ll pay for the land, pay for the seedlings, and half of the output from the land in the end.” Wei Ruo said.

“Half of the output? Then what if the output is low?” Shi Dayou asked.

Generally the landowner’s requirements of the tenant would be specified to how many catties and taels, and regardless of the good or bad course of the year, or the high or low harvest, the tenant had to pay rent to the landowner in accordance with that number.

And in these two years of bad years, many tenants’ fields did not produce enough food to pay the rent, and as a result, they owed a lot of money to the landlord’s family, and even became refugees and homeless.

“Regardless of the yield.” Wei Ruo said.

Only draw a percentage, there is no fixed rent for the landlord is a great disadvantage, in case the following tenants steal women dry play slippery, conceal the value of production, it will lead to the interests of the landlord is damaged, the general public will not want to do so.

However, Wei Ruo was willing to implement such a method on the Stone Village villagers led by Shi Dayou, which was out of trust for Shi Dayou and the others, and of course, it was also considered a test.

If they chose to steal the women dry and play slippery, then Wei Ruo would not work with them in the future.

Shi Dayou looked at Wei Ruo’s determined expression and said, “Mr. Xu, we ding dong do our best to help you plant sweet potatoes!”

Wei Ruo nodded, “How to arrange the manpower after that, it will be up to Brother Da You to arrange.”

As for the internal arrangements of Stone Village, Wei Ruo would not intervene.

Wei Ruo thought that, judging from the fact that Shi Dayou had arranged for the picking of bamboo fungus, it would not be a problem to arrange for people to contract her sandy land.

“Good, don’t worry, Mr. Xu, I will definitely not fail your trust in us!” Shi Dayou made a promise to Wei Ruo with a serious face.

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